St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 11, 1912

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oa ; ort of the Cefendants herein ” Post-Dispatch - =" | The Easy Way to Rent Rooms Count of Room and Board “Wants” Last Week: ‘tA - - 2085 fi we Louis’ ONE BIG Want A Medium. 2433 The Post-Dis atch DAILY COMIC P Only Evening Paper in St Louis With the Associated Press News Service. “ST LOUIS POST- OUSPATCH | VOL. 64. NO. ST. WON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1912. —20 dh sae PRICE ONE CENT TERMINAL WINS TO DRAW PLAN OF REORGANIZATION U. S. Judge Trieber Decides Form Scheme to Accord With Supreme Court Mandate Without Consulting With Company May Crow. GOVERNMENT HAS NO INTEREST IN PROPERTY Therefore It Is Debarred From Directing Order Given for Presentation to Court of Plan 10 Days Be- fore Expiration of 90 Days Allowed in Finding. DISPUTED PARAGRAPH IN COURT’S DECISION C) NE paragraph in the Su- preme Court’s decision in the Terminal case was in dis- gute. Counsel for the Terminal and (he 14 proprietary railroads con- tended that the word “parties,” as used in the decision, refers to the defendants only, while the counsel for the Government asserted that the word ““‘parties’’ included the parties to the suit—the Government en the one hand and the Terminal and proprietary lines on the other. The disputed paragraph follows: “This is accordingly adjudged and the case is remanded te the District Court with instructipns that a decree be then entered di- recting the parties to submit to the court, withia 00 days after the *seceipt of mandate, a plan for the reorganization of the contract be- tween the 14 defendant railroad companies and the Terminal com- pany, which we have pointed eut as bringing the combination with- im the inhibition of the statute.” The Terminal Railroad Association, through its counsel, is authorize’ to dtaw up a plan for its reorganiza- tion in accordance with ‘the recent decree of the United States supreme Court, without the assistance or di- rection of the Governments’s special ceunsel, BE. C. Crow. This is the deciston of Judge Jacob M, Trieber of Little Rock, sitting is Judge in the United States District Court here, in ah opinion he handed down Tuesday morning. The opinion overrules Crow's contention that he shoul ha part in the plan of re- organizing Werminal contract@ and agreements ‘ith the 14 proprietary lines named as co- —— in the Supreme Court cag Ju@te Henry 8. Priest for the Termi- ' reorganization at least 10 days | he expiration of the 90-day limit _ the Supreme Court, so that it | examined by Crow to give him ' file objections if he wishes to & oads’ Point Upheld, The preliminary decree as entered by Judge Trieber was in complete accord with the contentions of Judge Priest and -the lawyers representing the proprietary railroads. They have declared ever since the Supreme Court's decision was hand- ed dewn that the Government was not tg be consulted in the plan of reorgani- nation of Tem inal contracts and agree- ments. Judge Trieber held that Priest's view -was correct; as the Government ©wned nc interest in the properties af- fecied by the Supreme Court’s decision. Crow had submitted to United States District Judge Pyer last Thursday the form of a preliminary decree as he thought it should be written. Judge Dyer, being absent Tuesday and holding court at Rolla, called Judge Trieber to sit in the case. Priest had objected to Judge Dyer sitting in the case, on the ground that Judge Dyer was United States District Attorney at St. Louis ‘when the suit was filed. At the time Judge Dyer overruled Priest, but by calling Judge Trieber into the case he voluntarily disqualified ‘himeetlf. Judge Trieber eliminated the Govern- ment as a factor in the plan of reorgan- ization by striking out the words “the compyinant and” where they appeared in |. following paragraphs of the pre- lim iy decree as written by Crow: “That the complainant and the de- fendants herein are directed within 90 devs from the ——— day of May, 1912 (being 90 days from the receipt of the mandate in. this case), shall submit to thie court a plan upon which the com. piainant and the defendants herein shall — oe reorganization of reements, arrange- ments ad leases and the use and opera- tion of the properties ana terminal fa- Se + We Herr Any Objections. . ; elimination of these Words fro na Pp nesta decree left the y BOOK COUNTER GIRL BRIDE OF CONTRACTOR GIRL, 18, WEDS A RICH MAN, 62 Romance of December and May at Christian Publishing Co. Results in Wedding. tie, - Arthur W. McComas, 62 years old, a wealthy contractor, of Kennett, Mo., and Miss Josephine M. Lomax, 18 years old, of 2639 Caroline street, are on their honeymoon. They were married Mon- day night at the bride’s home.-: and May romance be- gan at the book counter of the Chris- tian Publishing Co., 2712 Pine street, where Miss Lomax was a clerk. McComas, on his frequent visits to wx. Louis, went there to purchase religious books. His kindliness and Miss Lomax’s cheerful attentiveness established a mutual regard. The marriage was the sole tonic of conversation Tuesday among the other 15 young women at the publishing com- pany'’s offices. -Miss Lomax had not taken her fellow clerks into her contfi- dence. A month ago she told her mother she and-her elderly admirer were engaged. McComas came to St. Louis Sunday and met Mrs. Lomax for the first time. “I think Mr. McComas is a very fine man, and I do not see why my daugh- ter should not be happy with him,” said the bride’s mother. The ceremony was performed by th2 Rev. B. N. Mitchell of the Compton Heights Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. McComas will depart for Kennett Tuesday evening. The December Doctor Gets Life Term. BAD AXB, Mich., June 11.—Dr. Rob- ert A. MacGregor of Ubly, recently convicted of murder in the first de- gree, in connection with the death of Scyrel Sparling, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Mrs. Carrie Bodey be tried on a’ similar charge. 1 tion IMRS. ROBERT ASKS HALF OF ESTATE; NEEDS $000 NOW Titanic Survivor Elects to Take Share Outright Instead of Life Income. SHE IS ABROAD AGAIN Sailed June 6 for Double Wed- ding of Her Nieces, the Misses Allen, in England. Edward S. Robert, widow of a St. Mrs. wealthy Louis lawyer, has exer- “ised her right, conferred by his will to choose whether she will take half his whether she will in all of it and estate absolutely or take a life enjoy the income from it for the rest of life. She has chosen to take half the property outright. Her home is at 4140 Lindell boulevara. The widow also has announced she is in immediate need of $5000 for provisions for her household. She is drawing an annual income of $17,000 from the estate of her first husband, the late George A. Madill. The demand for the $5000 and her elec- on the alternative propositions in the Robert will are contained in a pe- tition filed in the Probate Court of Pike County, Mo., Tuesday., The Roberts long have maintained a country estate in Pike County. Two Nieces te Wed Abroad. Mrs. Robert, with her daughter, Miss Georgette Madill, and her nieces, Misses Elizabeth W’. Allen and Clare Allen, sailed for Europe June 6 aboard the Baltic. The two nieces will be mar- ried at the same time in London, Miss Elizabeth to Dr. James B. Mennell, a London surgeon, and Miss Clare to Prof. Charles Homer Haskins of Har- vard Dniversity. “Mrs"Robért; Miss Ma- dill and Miss Elizabeth Allen were among the passengers rescued from the liner Titanic when she went down April 14. Mrs. Robert was abroad when Robert died, after an operation for appendicitis. In her petition she charges that there interest her Y were no grain, meat, groceries or other provisions on hand for the support of herself and her household, in the same manner it was supported before the husband's death. She asks the $6000 in lieu of provisions not on hand. Robert’s will was filed at the Pike County seat Dec. 21, 1911. The estate is valued at $250,000. Under the alterna- tive elected by the wife, half of this estate will go into a trust fund, to be handled by the Mercantile Trust Co., the income to be divided among Robert's four brothers, John G. and Douglas W. Robert of St. Louis, Dent H. Robert of San Francisco and Lee E. Robert of Dallas, Tex. BAND CONCERT TONIGHT Lafayette Park, 7 o’clock. Fischer's Band. eee ee eee eee el Queen a [ILLIA M JENNINGS ss B.R.Y A'N will attend the Na- tional Convention of the Republicans at Chicago and will " ’ illustrating her own ‘Specialists at Chicago for the Post-Dispatch WILLIAM J, BRYAN, Minor Will draw the cartoons and cari- - cature the “big” men. Clark McAdams Will throw the (‘JUST A MINUTE’’) on the activities of the politicians. Marguerite Martyn wit pick out the features of special interest to women,. A corps of staff correspondents will give a com- prehensive report of the news. The Post-Dispatch is the only afternoon newspaper in St. Louis analyze the — pro- ceedings and. their significance in a series of which will appear the articles exclusively in Post-Dispatch. light of humor articles. that, haeheaene S the Associated Press reporh sbhe-gonveution-. FEEOF$140,0001N TERMINAL BRIDGE SUIT SETTLEMENT Association Buys Shares, 7000 of Which Were Handled by Eugene Angert. CASES TO BE DROPPED Securities Rose to $50 After Being Considered Worth- less by Many. Attorney Eugene Angert Tuesday aft- ernooh announced the completion of a deal, by which he received a fee of $140,000 when the Terminal] Railroad As- sociation purchased 10,000 shares of Mer- chants Bridge Terminal Railway stock from minority stockholders at $50 a share. Attorney Angert represented the hold- ers of 7000 shares of stock in two suits against the Terminal Railroad Associa- tion. The Merchants Bridge stock was a drug on the market, selling at $1 to $2 a share, when he filed the suits. Un- der the terms of his contract with the stockholders Angert received a fee of $20 a share on eath of the 7000 shares he turned over to the Terminal. The Terminal purchased the stock fol- lowing the two suits filed by the mi- nority stockholders. The suits were filed in the names of John H. Dieck- mann, a broker, owning. 1600 shares; Charles Parsons Pettus, owner of 21 shares, and John A. Wittig of Belle- ville, owner of 127 shares. In one suit it was alleged that the Terminal Rail- road Association had violated its con- tract, made at the time of the purchase of the Merchants Bridge in 1893, to pay one-half of the earnings of the Terminal Association itself and the Merchants Bridge & Terminal] Railway Co. to the stockholders of the Merchants Bridge after accumulating a surplus of $6500,- 000. Said Comtract Was Violated. The second suit alleged that the Term- inal Railroad Association had violated another contract to pay interest ‘n $2,000,000 Merchants’ bridge bonds out of its own earnings by paying the intercst out of the earnings of the Merchants Terminal Co. This was a suit for an ac- counting of $2,040,000 alleged to be due the Merchants’ bride stockholders on ac- count of the violation of the contract. The first suit was set for trial before Referee Clifford B. Allen Friday. As a result of the settlement of the litigation the two suits will be dismissed Wednes- day. The Merchants’ Bridge Co. was capi- talized for $3,500,000. Much of this stock was given as bonds with a $2,000,000 issue of bonds sald to complete the bridge. The Terminal Railroad Association brought approximately 18,000 shares of the stock in 1893 when it acquired con- trol of the bridge and terminals and also guaranteed the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds. There was in the treasury of the com- pany at that time 5605 shares of stock, which was never issued. Paid About $500,000. The Terminal Association paid ‘ap- proximately $00,000 for the minority shares of stock Tuesday afternoon. The shares were delivered to the St. Louis Union Trust Co., which made payment for them. Attorney Angert represented about 100 shareholders. He delivered § their stock to the trust company and re- ceived ihe money for it, about $350,000. The settlement of the suit gives the Terminal Railroad Association absolute ownership of the Merchants’ Bridge Ter- minal Railway Co., which owns the Merchants’ Bridge and terminal lines. The company has been controlled by the Terminal since 1893. In that time the minority shareholders have received no benefits whatever from their stock. Many persons are said to have consid- ered the stock worthless and thrown it away. Just before the Angert suits were filed a. big block of stock belong- ing to an estate was sold at the court- house door at auction for $1.75 a share. CLOUDY TONIGHT, SLIGHTLY COOLER wore summe e — ROLLER, MAKES SILHOU- ETTeS OUT OF resort weather for St. is the prediction of the forecaster Yor Tuesday night and Wednesday. Midsummer heat is to be put off a littie while longer while the city en- joys more of the bracing coolness of the last few days. The prophecy :s that it will be cooler in the night and that it proba-| biy will be cout Louis Wednesday. Official fo ’ JUDGESUGGESTS THAT MOTHER LOCK UP NEW DIVORCE Kinsey Grants Decree to Pretty 18-Year-Old Mrs. Tillie Shep- herd, Candy Girt ELOPED WITH CHAUFFEUR Midnight Marriage in Police Sta- tion Followed Smash-Up of Automobile. Judge Kinsey gave a divorce Tuesday to Mrs. Tillie Shepherd, 18 years old, pretty and formerly a clerk in a down- town candy store. But as he freed her from the bonds of matrimony, the Judge turned to thie young woman and her mother and said: . “In my opinion your mother ought to lock you up.”’ “It has been my expérience,” said Judge Kinsey, ‘‘that 99 per cent of these midnight elopers to Clayton, who _in- dulge in hasty and. ill-considered mar- riages, land in the divorce court short- ly afterwards.”’ The young woman’s marriage to Har- vey Shepherd, a chauffeur, March 21, 1910, was the result of a midnight elope- ment to Clayton, fraught with mishaps that ended in the ceremony being per- formed by Justice Marty Moore in the Laclede Avenue Police Station. Eloped at Midnight. Mrs. Shepherd was formerly Miss Helfrich of 308 Manchester avenue. At midnight, March 21, she eloped to Clay- ton in an automobile with Harvey Shep- herd of 3117 Lucas avenue. They awak- ened the License Clerk, but could then get no one to marry them, so they started racing back to St. Louis in the automobile to hunt a minister or Justice of the Peace. “On the way in ‘Shepherd, fying to avoid a milk wagon, ran his automobile into a telegraph pole. The prospective bride was pitched through the wind shield and her face. badly cut. They. made the best time they could into St, Louis in the damaged automo- bile until they met Patrolman Byrnes of the Laclede Avenue Station, who called a taxicab and had Miss Helfrich taken to the city dispensary. The patrolman escorted Shepherd and Daniel Huston, 2734 Olive street, who had accompanied the elopers to Clayton, to the police sta- tion to explain the accident to the cap- tain. When the cuts on the bride’s face h:.d been patched up she rejoined them at the police station. Cheering After Ceremony. When they explained the situation to Capt. Hickman a policeman was dis- patched to find Justice Moore. The Captain and the police in the station gave a cheer when the ceremony was finished. and Huston, pulling a roll of bills from nis pocket, engaged the taxi cab for an indefinite time, explaining that “it was on him, as he and Har- vey had been schoolmates.”’ Mrs. Shepherd told Judge Kinsey that immediately after the wedding her hus- band took her home and left her there until several days later. When ‘he called for her with the au- tomobile and wanted her to go to live with him at a hotel she demurred. She said they sat up all night in the automobile arguing the question and that finally he took her back home, tell- ing her that there were other women he liked better than her, anyhow. Judge Kinsey gave her a decree on the ground of desertion. ee _— ee —~ - — - this week started out as usual, showir§ the St. Louis merchants ; Monday bought j 4 38 columns of advertising in the POST- DISPATCH alone and only 30. columns in three out of all four of the other St. Louis news- papers * added together The above is a record of that which is occurring every week. We print it simply as a reminder of the fact that the St. Louis merchants think more of the POST- DISPATCH alone than they do of three-fourths of all its competitors added together. St. Louis’ ONE BIG news- paper. Circulation average: surah 302,220 170,833 eee | --—- — - ee EDITION FINANCIAL | MARKETS SPORTS HENEY ENRAGES COMMITTE CHICAGO, June 11, so FLINN, back in Pitts- burg, where he lives, they sometimes call him ‘“Bru- tal Bill,” is the Roosevelt leader sent out to Chicago ‘‘to’ put some ginger into that crowd.’ Since Sat- urday, when he arrived, he has done nothing startling. His actions here to date stamp him as a “pussy-foot’” rival. of Murray Crane, the Taft _“‘gum-shoe”’’, leader., But there have been continuous conferences of all - the progressive leaders .with “Bill,” . ahd what may come forth none can predict safely. They do say that when the con-. vention fight gets down to the hard- hitting stage ‘‘Bill’’ will/be found as the ‘Roosevelt dictator, outranking even Perkins and Dixon. ‘Bill’ is running up an enormous long-dis- tance telephone bill, with Oystef Bay as the Eastern connection, and he, of all men, knows just what the Colonel wants. “} Bill” F linn, at Close Range head. and multimilionaire contractor does not appear the “rough neck” he has ~been ~»portrayed by some of the Pennsylvanians who do not like him or his methods. He is an ordinary sized man, perhaps 5 feet ‘9 inches up in the air, and wouldn't have to: train off much flesh to get’ in the middlewight class. His. face .is. long, keen and hawklike, his eyes a mf, steady blue, his nose long and’ “aquiline and his jaw strong and boyy... His hair is iron gray and covérs all of his T BE Pennsylvania: “‘progtéssive’ He has’a genial smile when he wills it and a frown that corrugates his brows when-the automatic thrust of his chin throws his nor- mal sized ears back against the strong shoulder muscles that ridge his neck. He talks jerkily, as does an impatient, positive man. His voice is almost as mild as his eye. had MAN ENDS LIFE BY ACID ON SHORE OF FOREST PARK LAKE Stanley Brown, Laundry Foreman, Takes Acid—Had Complained of Health. a foreman was found H. H. Stanley Brown. for the Peerless Laundry Co., dead of carbolic acid poisoning on the shore of Sylvan Lake in Forest Park at 7:30 a. m. Tuesday. A bottle whicn had contained the poison was near the body. In a coat pocket was one of the laun- Gr?’s cards on which was written the name H. 8. Brown. The body was found by a park gar- dener. # At th® laundry office it was said that ‘Brown had been foreman of the mapn- gling department for five years. Brown was 4 years old and lived at 215 Eu- genia street. He had a wife and a daughter in Kansas City. Brown reported that he was ili and could not work Monday. When a mes- senger was sent to his room early Tues- day, Brown was. not there. At the laundry it was said that recently he complained that his health was failing. - Among Brown's effects was a letter from his 14-year-old daughter Vera, who wrote from Kansas City that she was coming to St. Louis ‘to yisit him Wednesday. “Il am getting my doll rags together and will write, so you can meet me,” the letter said. Mrs. Jennie Hopkins, at whose house Brown roonred, said that he owed room rent. Several days ago he told Mra. Hopkins that June was his unlucky month. per in St. lute : ‘ ate : ‘ Ps . x be Ad ° - " “ies ne 5 ee : POSS ES RF See er ee gee yg SS y aye eons A x is bs i T KLLED BY TRAN IN CAPITAL PARK Wife of Wickliffe, Unaware of Tragedy, Visits House as It © Prepares to Adjourn. , WASHINGTON, June 11.—Representa- tive Robert C. Wickliffe of Louisiana was run down by a train on the tracks of the Southern Railway in Potomac Park today and killed instantly. He had ‘left the capital yesterday to te away today on a fishing trip. How he happened to stray on the rail- road tracks has not been explained. The engineer said he saw the Congressman too late to avoid the accident. News of his death traveled fast, but did not reach Mrs. Wickliffe before shel tad started for the capital, as was her dally custom, to watch the proceedings in the House. The House was about to adjourn out of respect to the memory of Wickliffe when several members saw his wife in the gallery. There ~-« a hurried conference, Rep- resentatives Estopinal of Lovisiana and Cullop of Indiana made their way quiet- ly to where Mrs. Wickliffe was sitting and invited her dowmstairs to Speaker Clark's of*ice: There, as gently as they could, they told her of the tragedy. Mra. Wick- liffe fainted. Later she cried to be taken home, Mrs. Champ Clark, a close friend, was called. immediately Mra, Wickliffe was seen ——_—_o——_—- ; ae ee They Were Frozen Out— | _Taft’s Gain to Date Is O40 ~ CHICAGO, June 1.—By_ seating te four delegates-at-large and thé de : from the First, Second and Fou dent Taft, t mittee toda” porary rol "ot the conven of the President and f tion which would — podians tested seats from” that State to The contest in the Fourth District withdrawn. : 7 In the First and Second Districts vote was 46 to 0 against the con ‘With these three districts and the gates-at-large gecided in the favor, the number of con de'ermined for him since the comm began its deliberations reached 9. After arguments were concluded in districts there remained to be consid- Tenth and Eleventh districts. Francis J. Heney of San Francisco political conditions in when he referred to some of tucky political acts acts of Abe Reuf of drew a sharp protest : aee Hl ? i Es f charge of the arguments for th velt forces, frequently admit some of the points advanced 13 “We do not claim we were | there was no opportunity given to to leave the gallery, the House ad-{ journed at 11:0 «a. m until ll a, tomorrow. Wickliffe’s watch had stopped at om] His body was tald on the near the track and later carried to | the First, Second and Fourth Kentueky — ered contests in the Seventh, Highth, —